Placing the Nation: Aberystwyth and the Reproduction of Welsh Nationalism

Rather than viewing nationalism as something that exists purely on a national scale, Placing the Nation examines how the importance of people embedded within particular places contributes to nationalism’s cultural reproduction. Articulating this theme by examining the contributions of Aberystwyth citizens to the reproduction of Welsh nationalism since the 1960s, this volume demonstrates how national discourses and practices are generated within specific locales and then communicated to the broader membership of the nation. This wide-ranging and rich account reenergizes both our geographical and social constructions of nationalism’s changing conceptions.

 

Rhys Jones​ is professor of human geography and former had of the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at Aberystwyth University.


Rhys Jones is reader at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences at Aberystwyth University. Carwyn Fowler works for Keep Wales Tidy and was previously correspondent for Golwg and a research associate funded by the Board of Celtic Studies, University of Wales.